Buhari should resign if he can’t stop killings – Catholic Bishops

The Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has again demanded the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over the killings across the country.

CBCN had in a reaction to an attack on some Catholic worshipers at a church in Benue State accused Mr Buhari of negligence in his constitutional role of ensuring the safety of lives and property in Nigeria and demanded his resignation.

In a similar statement, sent to Premium Times on Tuesday, CBCN said it was repeating the request for Mr Buhari’s resignation because the issues raised in the body’s initial statement were ‘neglected’ by the presidency.

“Barely two months ago, from the Eternal City of Rome during our Ad Limina Visit, we, the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, issued a statement expressing our grave concerns about the spate of violence in our country and the federal government’s inability to deal with the situation.

“That statement came on the heels of the gruesome murder of two of our priests along with 17 other parishioners in Benue State on 24 April this year. The latest horrendous massacre of scores of innocent Nigerians, especially children and women, including pregnant women, in Plateau State, by the same rampaging and murderous terrorists who now seem to be operating without any hindrance in the Middle Belt and other parts of Nigeria, shows that our last statement, like all the others before, has been completely ignored by those whose primary responsibility it is to protect the lives and property of Nigerians.

“Once again, we ask President Muhammadu Buhari to please save this country from further pain and avoidable chaos, anarchy and doom. May we here repeat what we said in our last statement: “If the President cannot keep our country safe, then he automatically loses the trust of the citizens. He should no longer continue to preside over the killing fields and mass graveyard that our country has become.”

The statement by the Catholic body is another reaction to the recent killings of some villagers in Jos.